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- By
understanding the blindspots associated with your personality type, you can
avoid the common career pitfalls encountered by people like yourself
- You
can also identify your unique strengths, motivations,
and any skills or qualities you may need to develop
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Finally, knowing your personality type helps you avoid the 'square peg in a
round hole' trap, by matching your individual preferences to the right work
and career choices.
 If you find
your Learning Style Profile below an accurate reflection of your personality, you'll find
the INFP
(shown left) invaluable as a tool for managing your work life.
Unlike
conventional self-help books, the Guide is written specifically for your
personality type, and comes complete with
specific to your needs, for only $29.99.
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Learning
Style Profile for INFP
(The
Visionary)
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| INFPs
learn best by studying, reflecting, exchanging ideas and linking them to other
ideas to form new patterns of understanding.
To them, learning is
a way of expanding their horizons and a path towards growth and development.
They prefer to learn in an unstructured manner, and a friendly, co-operative
atmosphere in which exploration and discovery are encouraged is a prerequisite
for their success. They enjoy playing with ideas, experimenting with
possibilities and thinking around their subject. They become absorbed in a
subject deeply and read as much about it as they can. For them to become
involved in the learning process, their imagination needs to be stimulated, so
they benefit from reading, video, inspiring lectures, workshops and group
discussions. Analysis and concentration on facts and details tends to demotivate
them.
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As
learners, INFPs:
- are quick to grasp
ideas and possibilities
- are motivated to
learn in order to further their own and other people’s development
- enjoy abstraction
and seeing patterns emerge by linking disparate ideas together
- benefit from
allowing their creativity and inspiration free reign
- may need to think
about how they can use what they have learnt
- may need to set
themselves targets and timetables
- may need to develop
judgment, criticism and objectivity
- may need to
periodically review and summarise what they have learnt
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INFPs
learn best when:
- emotionally engaged
by a subject, or can relate it to their personal interests and values
- working alone or in
small groups
- required to explore
a subject in depth
- allowed to absorb
ideas at their own pace and to digest them thoroughly before acting on them or
making decisions
- listening and
observing, e.g. watching how other people do things, listening to a lecture or
presentation, taking notes
- encouraged to read,
research and reflect on a subject
- encouraged to share
their insights and pursue their personal interests
- ideas are presented
imaginatively or in an inspiring manner, for example using role-play,
dramatisation or multi-sensory presentations
- given personal
attention by their tutor or teacher, in an atmosphere of trust and mutual
respect
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INFPs
learn least well and may be demotivated when:
- having to take
centre stage or being put 'under the spotlight'
- being taught by
'rote' (i.e. repetition), or when given specific instructions or rigid
guidelines
- involved in
situations which require spur-of-the-moment action and decision-making
- the focus is on
analysis, detail or facts and figures
- there is emphasis
is on competition and rivalry
- presented with too
many distractions or alternatives
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| With an awareness of your preferred learning style, you can adapt the way you learn, so that instead of undermining your confidence or frustrating you, it plays to your strengths and facilitates an enjoyable
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